If California State Senator Joe Simitian gets his way, California will come to the fore of states passing laws which restrict the uses of the controversial RFID chips. South Dakota is presently considering a law which prohibits implanting an RFID chip in a human, and Rhode Island is currently reviewing a proposed law which would prohibit requiring as a condition of employement or receiving services the RFID tracking of an employee, student or client.

The California “Identity Information Protection Act of 2005″, as the pending bill is known, would prohibit state and local government agencies from issuing RFID-bearing identification documents that either transmit personal information or allow personal information data to be scanned. The bill would allow the use of RFID technology in prisons, hospitals, and public health facilities, and at toll barriers.

Explained Simitian, “RFID technology is not in and of itself the issue…

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